#20 in Collaboration & CommunicationUpdated 2026-08

useSend

by useSend · Open source transactional and marketing email, billed per message sent

51.2 — BenchRank score out of 100

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Overview

useSend is an open source platform for sending product, transactional and marketing email, available as a hosted service or self-hosted. It uses Amazon SES underneath and adds a dashboard covering deliveries, opens, clicks, bounces and unsubscribes, a WYSIWYG campaign editor, contact lists and an automatic suppression list. Sending is via typed SDKs, an API or an SMTP relay.

Best for: Developers and small teams sending transactional and marketing email who want open source and low cost
Pricing: Free tier up to 3,000 emails a month, then a paid plan with a $10 minimum monthly usage charge that includes $10 of credits, at $0.0004 per transactional email and $0.001 per marketing email.
Runs on: WebSelf-hosted

Strengths and trade-offs

Strengths

Open source, with self-hosting offered as an option
Typed SDKs for TypeScript, Python, Go and PHP
Free tier covers up to 3,000 emails a month
Drop-in SMTP relay works with any app or framework

Trade-offs

Paid plan carries a $10 minimum monthly usage charge
Free tier limited to 1 domain, 1 contact book and 1 team member
Free tier also capped at 100 emails per day
Sending runs on Amazon SES underneath, not its own infrastructure

Pricing

Published plans from useSend’s own pricing page, in USD. Usage charges and add-ons may apply on top.

useSend pricing tiers, monthly rates in USD
Plan	Monthly	Includes
Free	—per month	Up to 3,000 emails per month, 100 per day 1 contact book and 1 domain 1 team member
Paid	$10minimum usage per month	$10 monthly usage credits included Transactional email at $0.0004 each Marketing email at $0.001 each Unlimited contact books, domains and team members

How this score is made up

Each dimension is scored out of 100 and combined into the headline score using fixed weights.

MCP support: 0 out of 100
API quality: 50 out of 100
Documentation: 90 out of 100
Agent friendliness: 51 out of 100
Changelog: 100 out of 100
Marketing site structure: 60 out of 100
Operational trust: 25 out of 100

Measured, but not part of the score

Useful to know, but not a mark for or against the product — so these do not affect the ranking.

Openness: 65 out of 100
Maintenance: 100 out of 100

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